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GM said buyer interest in the new Chevrolet Volt has prompted the automaker to boost 2012 production plans for the plug-in hybrid to 45,000 units from 30,000.

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General Motors Co., preparing to launch the first U.S. mass-market plug-in hybrid, will offer buyers of its Chevrolet Volt an eight-year, 100,000-mile warranty on the lithium-ion battery’s 161 components.

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The Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid will launch in Michigan, joining California as a market that will get the car initially, General Motors Co. said today.

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General Motors Co. tomorrow is expected to announce that the rollout of the new Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid will take place in selected U.S. markets — not as a national launch.

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Hyundai plans to have a plug-in hybrid on sale in this country by late 2012. Yang Woong-chul, randd president of Hyundai-Kia Motors, says the new hybrid-only vehicle will be based on the Blue-Will concept shown at the Seoul Motor Show in April.

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General Motors is working without interruption on the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid despite mounting financial woes and the threat of bankruptcy, said Tom Stephens, the automaker’s product development chief.

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General Motors is working without interruption on the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid despite mounting financial woes and the threat of bankruptcy, said Tom Stephens, the automaker’s product development chief.

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Hyundai will launch its first plug-in hybrid in the United States in late 2012.

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